Challenges In The News 10/30/08

Wrist-band tracking devices may soon help Palm Springs police reduce their costs of looking for elderly and mentally-challenged people who sometimes wander and get reported missing, the department announced today.

When the bell rings at the New York Stock Exchange every morning, traders get to work. So do investigators charged with detecting market abuse. But in recent years, a confluence of factors has made the monitoring of insider trading and market manipulation more challenging.

Turkey's basketball team is tall, and it might well provide the sort of challenge the United States is looking for as the Beijing Olympics near

Despite being ranked as one out of five countries in the world with a successful HIV/AIDS national program, The Bahamas is being challenged by a lack of human resources, according to the national director.

At least nine climbers are feared dead and five others are missing on the world's second-highest peak in northern Pakistan, which is regarded as more challenging to climb than Mount Everest.

It can be a challenge to eat healthy food and the state is upping the ante. As National Farmer's Market Week approaches, so does the challenge to eat local. KPLC's Jessica Conrad explains.

"The Dark Knight" fended off a strong challenge from the new "Mummy" sequel to lead the North American box office for a third weekend, and is on track to become the second-biggest movie of all time.

Early on, it was a bit of a challenge to get Linux natively installed on the PS3. Time has passed, and a great deal has changed. Fedora 7 installs on the PS3 out of the box, with the most challenging installation steps eliminated.

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) sees a challenging fiscal first quarter ahead and doesn't expect to be profitable in the first quarter, said Chief Financial Officer Michael Lehman in a conference call.

Farmers have faced a challenging season. Crops have endured flooding and are currently battling the heat. Plus, the high cost of fuel has many farmers struggling to make ends meet.

Veteran singer BOB DYLAN was once challenged to a basketball game by CHEECH AND CHONG - and lost to the comedy duo. In Tommy Chong's forthcoming book, Cheech + Chong: ...